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| Name: |
Walker Percy | | Birth Date: |
May 28, 1916 | | Death Date: |
May 10, 1990 | | Place of Birth: |
Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America | | Place of Death: |
Covington, Louisiana, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
novelist |
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 Biography of Walker Percy
3,166 words, approx. 11 pages
 Walker Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on 28 May 1916. He married Mary Bernice Townsend in 1946, has two daughters, and is very much the family man and private person at his home in Covington, Louisiana. He claims to read little fiction and to... summary from source:
 Biography of Walker Percy
1,650 words, approx. 6 pages
Walker Percy (1916-1990) won the National Book Award for fiction in 1961 for his first published novel, The Moviegoer. In five subsequent novels and numerous essays, he explored his chosen theme of "the dislocation of man in the modern age." His work... 
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 Walker Percy Quotes
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 Walker Percy ( May 28 , 1916 – May 10 , 1990 ) was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Moviegoer (1961) 1.2 The Message in a Bottle (1975) 1.3 Lost in the Cosmos: The Last...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Walker Percy Information
1,423 words, approx. 5 pages
Walker Percy (May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990) was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is best known for his philosophical novels, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for...
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 The Boston Globe Walker Percy
05/12/1990: 307 words, approx. 1 pages He never thought of himself as a Southern writer or a Catholic writer, although he spent most of his 74 years in the South, was a convert to Roman Catholicism, and infused his novels with intimations of Christian existentialism. Walker Percy, who died... summary from source:
National Review Conversations with Walker Percy.
03/28/1986: 1,070 words, approx. 4 pages Conversations with Walker Percy 'A GOOD DEAL of my energy as a novelist comes from malice," Walker Percy confeses baldly in one of the interviews in this collection. Sometimes the malice is ill-mastered--after President Kennedy's assassination he reeled off two or three... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Quiz: Who Is Michiko Kakutani?
8/23/2005: 331 words, approx. 1 pagesSometimes, Michiko Kakutani gets tired of being Michiko Kakutani. Can you identify the imaginary alternative persona in each of the following passages? 1. "Dwight says 'dude' an awful lot, but boy, the guy is a real talker: he's got this voice that just grabs your... summary from source:
Tango Cities of Romance
6/30/2007: 4,980 words, approx. 17 pages*NEW YORKObvious choice? Maybe. Wanna make something of it? The truth is, leaving this brash five-borough beast of a town off any list of superlative cities would be unthinkable. It’s impossible to deny that the place that spawned Sex and the City and metrosexuals, G-strings...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by R. V. Young
6,413 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following excerpt, Young compares and contrasts the work of Walker Percy and Walter Miller, contending that both have authored science-fiction novels in the sense that science fiction deals with the effects of science on the human condition.
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Critical Essay by Robert Coles
4,747 words, approx. 16 pages
[For Percy, as indicated in his essay "Symbol as Need" (1954),] the inclination toward symbolization is not only a uniquely human one, but one in no way explained by reference to either evolution or biology. (p. 75) "Symbolic transformation" for him is not a "need," but rather "a means of knowing." He wants not to put labels on people, but understand what they are doing. He believes that symbols enable us to acquire not "facts," but rathe... summary from source:
Critical Essay by John F. Zeugner
2,800 words, approx. 9 pages
The relationship of [Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Marcel, Camus, and Sartre] to Percy's fiction is just beginning to be sorted out. Certainly the sorting-out is crucial, for Percy himself has insisted that the modern writer must be a "passionate propagandist" full of "passionate convictions." He must know who he is and what he stands for—only such knowledge, Percy has contended, provides the foundation for art. (p. 21) Percy has been obsessed with "intersubjectivi...
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